Brand new MacOS user here. If I have 2 windows opened side-by-side, is there a way to hover over the inactive window to make it active? Sometimes I'll be working in 1 window and have YouTube playing in a separate browser window. To pause the video, I have to click to make the inactive window active, then click again to pause. Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing? Thank you.
Mac mini (M2 Pro, 2023)
FWIW, merely hovering over a window will not make it active.
I have two windows open Side by Side
Mail and Safari
My focus ( active window ) is in the Safari window
To move my focus ( active window ) from Safari to Mail.
I have to Click Inside the Mail window
@dialabrain Correct. I've been an MS Windows user for decades, just got this Mac Mini last night. In Windows, when I hover over any open application window, it becomes active. I typically run YouTube in Chrome and Ps side-by-side to follow photo editing tutorials and often have to pause the video while I do the steps in Ps.
As it appears now in MacOS, I have to:
@pro_53 yes, that's what I'm finding I have to do in MacOS. But in your example, I may get emails with multiple links. In Windows, I can have my browser and mail apps open like you do, hover over the inactive mail window, click the link, and it'll recognize the click. You're telling me I now have to click the mail app before I can click the link inside of it?
m3bella wrote:
1. @dialabrain Correct.
Yes. As it turns out, Windows and macOS are not the same.
Mouse over window to make active
